Lost links & Re-ups

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05 December 2016

Dub in Styleis an eleven track dub album celebrating the memory of Lincoln 'Style' Scott, legendary drummer of the Roots Radics band who was brutally murdered in his home last year. All the riddims on Dub In Style were recorded with Style Scott at Tuff Gong Recording Studios in Kingston, Jamaica.

03 December 2016

So we’ve kept up with Mark Stewart since Pop Group…with the Maffia & solo projects. Now we’ve had an in-depth view of Gareth Sager. But what of Bruce Smith? I’m not going into as much detail as the truly informative four-part saga from Jonder. I’m just too much a lazy sod, so I’m just lumping this stuff all together. It is, however, a great listen. Tried to accentuate the beats, man. I stuck some great Vivian Stanshall featuring drums via Bruce in the mix as an additional treat.

Gareth Sager and Davy Henderson have had similar careers. Both are veterans of influential post-punk bands (Henderson helmed the Fire Engines). Both took a shot at the pop charts (Sager with Head, and Henderson with his trio Win). Each then forged his own eclectic path (Henderson with The Nectarine No.9, and Sager with Pregnant and CC Sager). Both have been deeply influenced by the "formal eccentricities" of Sun Ra and Captain Beefheart.

"That guitar player from Bristol, the one who used to be in Head" was poet Jock Scot's collaborator on The Caledonian Blues, just as "Davy fucking Henderson" and the NN9 backed Jock Scot on his debut album, My Personal Culloden. Sager and Scot performed a cover of Cockney Rebel's "Faith Healer" with a band called Port Sulphur. Jock Scot died this year, and a documentary on his life called "Services To Rock And Roll" is in the making.

Much of Sager and Henderson's music was released by The Creeping Bent Organisation: Slack Slack Music, CC Sager's The Last Second Of Normal Time, the Port Sulphur single. and several records by the NN9 and Henderson's current band The Sexual Objects.

In 2010, Gareth Sager reunited with his Pop Group bandmates Mark Stewart, Bruce Smith, and Dan Catsis. The quartet released an album of new songs last year, and another this year. Sager continues to perform with Davy Henderson and other Creeping Bent confederates, sometimes backing Vic Godard. This brings us to the present day, and the closing chapter of our Sager saga.